Transcript of Human Origins in Africa

Homework:Read and take notes on Chap.1./Sec.1. (p.5-11.)Aim: What were the major achievements in human history during prehistoric times?How do historians learn about the past?1. written records (primary and secondary sources) 2. oral records3. visual records (paintings, photographs)4. historic artifacts (buildings, tools, everyday objects) 5. fossilsPrehistory: dates back before the invention of writingarcheologists --> artifactsanthropologists --> culturepaleontologists --> fossils of early hominidsother scientists Artifact: an object made by a human being, typically an item of cultural or historical interest

Culture: the way of life of a group of people. Culture includes common practices of a society, its shared understandings, and its social organization. Culture helps to unify the group. Out of Africa TheoryLucy1. Earliest hominid footprints found in Tanzania (East Africa)2. Earliest human skeleton "Lucy" found in Ethiopia (East Africa)Hominid development:

Neolithic Age: New Stone Age8000 B.C. to 3000 B.Cpolished stone toolspottery makinggrowing cropsraising animals Homo habilis"man of skill"2.5 - 1.5 million years agofound in East Africafirst to make stone tools Homo erectus"the upright man"1.6 million to 30.000 B.C.first hominid to move out of Africafirst to use firedeveloped technology (more sophisticated tools)may have developed languagefirst to live in hunter-gatherer societies

Why was the discovery of fire so important?Homo Sapiens"the wise man"NeanderthalCro-MagnonNeanderthals200,000 to 30,000 B.C.found in Europe and SW Asialarger brains than modern humansnot ancestors to modern humanslived in caves during ice agemade clothes from animal skinsused tools, fire, huntedfirst to have ritual burialsmysteriously vanishedCro-Magnons or European Early Modern Humans40,000 - 8,000 B.C.migrated from North Africa to Europe and Asiaancestors of modern humansmore specialized toolsplanned and coordinated huntingadvanced language skills

How did Neanderthals and Cro-Magnons differ from earlier peoples?Summary ActivityOn an exit slip answer the Aim question: What were the major achievements in human history during the Old Stone Age? Do Now:In your notebook answer the following question:Homework for Friday:Read and take notes on Chap.1. Sec. 2.